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TIL the longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched (9 letters)

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Aa7w TIL Some Catholics urged Pope Clement VII to ban coffee, calling it “devil’s beverage”. After tasting the beverage, the Pope is said to have remarked that the drink was “… so delicious that it would be a sin to let only misbelievers drink it”.
l78ZB TIL that the heart of Washington DC in the mid-19th Century was a literal open sewer
kJB81 TIL We Perceive People that Annoy Us as Moving Slower than They Are
Br4mD TIL the movie "Deep Throat" was made for $47,500, but made at least $30 million, and according to some estimates, it might have brought in as much as $600 million of earnings.
XwaR TIL that the invention of the bicycle was a factor in reducing rural inbreeding because it tripled the courting radius for rural workers.